Long Way To Hollywood
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Oh, babe, I hate to leave you down here
In this one horse town
Where the train runs through your early dreams
Just to leave an old wailing sound

Oh but I'm coming back
I will return
Oh honey now, wait for me
I'm bound to travel the USA
Across the desert on to sea

I've got another song about the south
You know, it's white and it's black
There ain't no banjo on my knee
But that songs upon my back

Yeah, it's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's just a southern game

When I told them I was leaving
You know, my old mama she cried
Old grandma she looked down that road, Lord
My old granddaddy he died

I love them all, you know I love them all
And I hope it ain't so late
I hope I can help the ones that's left here
I hope that's in my fate

Yeah, it's a long long way to Hollywood
Now a short short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's just a southern game

I've got another song for all the old people
Down in the Georgia night
I know their wings are heavy now
And they're on the most lonesome flight

All them old depression people
Babe, I know they took a heavy load
All their children, my kinfolk's and cousins
Still walking on Tobacco Road

Well they still talk about Hank Williams, Lord
Clinging unto his fame
I'm of the same race, I'm from the same place
And so the same lonesome blood in my veins

Oh, it's a long long way to Hollywood
And a short short change for fame
All them slicks talk about downhome
But I know that's just a southern game
Oh, I know that's just a southern game
Yes, I know that's a southern game
I know that's a southern game
Yes, I know that's a southern game